Weekly Update (June 4, 2017)

It is going to be a tough week this week, across the board. Persistent NE winds for the entire week are going to keep all but the biggest boats 'inside' and make life miserable for patrons who can get 'outside'.

That makes Fluke the number one game in town this week. Focus on the back bays and rivers, it will produce some flatties. Don't expect any lights out fishing, but at least you will be able to bend a rod.

Stripers are going to love this week's weather set up. Still getting to them by boat is going to be very difficult. If you are a beach or jetty jock, then this is your week. Get out your surf pole and some bunker heads and you have a chance at some real big fish coming along. I will also mention that a persistent NE wind is known to push the Stripers back into the bay. It would not be surprising to hear some really big fish coming bayside this week. Suggestions on targeting bay fish -- Set up on anchor with clam and chum.

Bluefish do still exist in the bays but in decreasing numbers. Probably not worth targeting at this point but if you see some bird play, jump in.

Finally, I will mention in anticipation, this blog was going to focus on Shark this week as we are rounding into prime time season. But given the weather set up, don't expect any activity this week. Will take a closer week next week.

Latest NJ Bonito Reports

We had some breezey conditions this morning Wow was it howling Seas got lumpy but not bad . Fishing was decent for us especially when the winds dropped out late in the day Caught some nice sea bass,some guys had either a limit of keepers or close,some nice porgies,bonito,blues lots of life out there.

Started the morning off in a different area releasing a half dozen smaller stripers and a few blues on live bait. Once we lost the tide, we broke out the light tackle and had great action with the guys landing around 50 albies, a dozen bonita and a few mackerel to finish off the morning.

Some pretty good weather is ahead of us, and anglers should take advantage of it since there's a tropical storm warning posted for Tuesday. There's already a large swell on the beach, and that will get even larger if Jose continues to swirl around offshore. Ocean chumming for bonito, little tunny and chub mackerel has generally been very good.

This morning, we fished on the beach on bird life. We had some albies, bonito and blues in the morning. Once the tide changed, we lost the albies but boy oh boy did the blues bite! We SLAUGHTERED THE BLUES with most anglers onboard catching their limits and some! (but only keeping their limits) They ranged anywhere from 2-5 lbs. Ava 27s, both plain and tailed, worked the best.

Today, we sailed out into the horizon east of our port. We anchored up along the edge of the mud hole and started the mackerel immediately. We were able to catch them and keep them all around the boat all day long. We had numerous bonito and some nice sized albies also in the catch. Everything was caught on 007 jigs.

The best report today came from the Golden Eagle out of Belmar which reported a super day of fishing for bonito, little tunny and chub mackerel -- along with a 20-to-25-pound yellowfin tuna boated and another lost. Hopefully, those mullet will move out into the ocean after Sunday's east winds to get the fall surf striper run started early.

This morning, we had another excellent day of fishing east of shark river inlet. We anchored up along the edge of the mud hole again and started the mackerel right away. We continued to catch the macs along with some nice sized bonito and jumbo sea bass (which had to go back)

This morning, we had another good day of angling. We anchored up along the edge of the mud hole well east of shark river inlet. It didn't take long to start the mackerel and it got better as the day went on with some bonito and a couple of albies mixed in. It was an excellent day of fishing!